The
revelations about the IRS targeting voices opposed to Barack Obama’s
political agenda came of no surprise to filmmaker Joel Gilbert. His private
financial accounts were hacked into and the information used by a George
Soros-linked journalist, Seth Rosenfeld, before the presidential election.
Gilbert wants to know who provided Rosenfeld with his private bank records.
Was it someone at the IRS? Or at the White House?

Gilbert
directed the blockbuster film, “Dreams
from My Real Father,” which was heavily criticized by the left
before the November 2012 presidential election because of the Obama campaign’s
fear it could alert voters to Obama’s communist connections and
Marxist philosophy. The film featured evidence that Obama’s real
father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA operative who indoctrinated
Obama into a Marxist ideology during his formative years in Hawaii.

Gilbert
was interviewed extensively on radio and television, as well as by major
newspapers such as The New York Times, which apparently feared the film
would have an impact on the election outcome. His announcement of a promotional
campaign to send millions of DVDs for free to various states was of major
concern to Obama’s backers in the media.

We noted
in our pre-election story, Last
Minute Anti-Romney Dirty Tricks Target Filmmaker, that the invasion
of Gilbert’s privacy seemed to be an attack on donors to Mitt Romney’s
presidential campaign, since some of them had also contributed to the
distribution of Gilbert’s film.

In addition
to the scrutiny of his donors, Gilbert tells AIM that in early 2012, the
IRS reopened his 2009 tax return, and simply denied all of his business
expenses, even though they were well-documented. “My accountant
said he had never seen anything like it in 30 years of experience with
the IRS,” he told AIM. “To resolve the issue, my accountant
met the IRS auditor in Los Angeles, and reported that she had a print-out
of the home page of the “Dreams from My Real Father” official
film website on her desk. Despite the resubmission of the 2009 expenses,
the IRS has still not closed the case, and my accountant continues to
meet with them every few months. The next meeting is set for May 19th.”

He says,
“I believe I have been illegally targeted by the IRS because my
films and interviews have run contrary to President Obama’s official
narrative of who he is and what his policies really are for America. The
fact that the IRS targeted me indicates they were afraid of me and the
information in my film.”

It was
in late October of 2012 that the scrutiny of his customers came to light.
He says, “…unknown parties illegally acquired private company
bank information, and it was passed on to left-wing journalist Seth Rosenfeld,
who began targeting my customers who purchased large quantities of the
“Dreams from My Real Father” DVD, as well as a limited partner.”

But
Gilbert says, “The bank information could only be accessed by the
IRS or from my corporate bank account with a confidential user ID and
password. On October 26th, Seth Rosenfeld called me directly and began
citing bank deposit amounts that he purported to be bank wire transfers
received in my company bank account, and asked what they were used for.
I was so shocked that he claimed to have confidential bank information,
I asked him to send an email and hung up, but no email was received.”

Gilbert
goes on: “Next, Rosenfeld called a company limited partner on his
private number and fraudulently introduced himself as being with the Romney
campaign and asked for a donation. When the partner said he wasn’t
interested, Rosenfeld admitted to being a reporter and began citing the
partner’s confidential bank wiring history. The partner hung up.
Next, Rosenfeld called the elderly mother of a customer who had purchased
a large quantity of DVDs by check. Rosenfeld tricked the woman into giving
out her son’s home phone number by pretending to be an old friend.
When Rosenfeld called the customer, Rosenfeld cited the amount of the
check, and asked about his political beliefs, and asked by name whether
he knew others who made purchases from my company.”

Finally,
Gilbert says a major buyer of DVDs was contacted by Rosenfeld on his private
unlisted cell phone number. “Again, Rosenfeld cited the customer’s
transfer amount to my company, asked what it was for, and asked him to
detail his political opinions and any donations to Republican campaigns,
including Romney’s,” he says. “Finally, Rosenfeld called
my DVD replicator on her private number, but she hung up, as I had forewarned
her that Rosenfeld’s campaign might be coming her way.”

Based
on the evidence in his and other cases coming to light, Gilbert says he
believes there is a “criminal conspiracy” that used the IRS
“to target the First Amendment rights of Americans,” and that
President Obama and other high-level officials should be targets of the
investigation into the admitted wrongdoing.

Gilbert
directed the blockbuster film, “Dreams from My Real Father,”
which was heavily criticized by the left before the November 2012 presidential
election because of the Obama campaign’s fear it could alert voters
to Obama’s communist connections and Marxist philosophy.